Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, Network Traffic Management

Royal Bank of Scotland; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bank of Scotland is seeking a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer focused on network traffic management. You will lead design and maintenance of infrastructure products, automate with GitLab CI/CD and Ansible, and drive security and observability across on‑premises and hybrid environments.

You will collaborate with product owners to shape roadmaps, support production issues, and mentor colleagues while delivering scalable, secure infrastructure using modern IaC approaches.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform automation using GitLab CI/CD and Ansible.
• Strong experience in infrastructure as code.
• Good understanding of Agile practices and release management.
• Ability to design intuitive, self‑service infrastructure products and coach others.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and engineering of self‑service infrastructure products.
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning.
• Deliver infrastructure as code solutions.
• Collaborate with product owners to develop roadmaps and lifecycle management.
• Provide operational support and engage with vendors for infrastructure services.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Infrastructure as code

Agile

Observability tools

Collaboration

Networking security

Tools

NGINX Ingress Controller

NGINX App Protect

F5 BIG-IP

Broadcom AVI Load Balancer

Job description

Join us as a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, Network Traffic Management

You’ll collaborate across boundaries to build the best possible solutions for enterprise application delivery and security platformsand develop infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in

You’ll also champion and drive the use of automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product along with coaching and mentoring other engineers and collaborating on developmental activities

This is a chance to create an environment to build communities with colleagues across bank and share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

What you’ll do

As a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of network traffic management technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, solve production issues and help customers consume our products.

• Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self‑service infrastructure products
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

The skills you’ll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in platform automation using GitLab CI/CD and Ansible, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You’ll also have a strong experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain.

• Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Experience in software testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Experience with F5 BIG-IP (LTM, DNS/GTM, Advanced WAF), NGINX Ingress Controller, NGINX App Protect, and Broadcom AVI Load Balancer platforms
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre
• Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 29/09/2026

Ways of Working: Remote First